"When my tickets stink or when I get the feeling my opponent has high tickets or a better chance of getting the longest continuous route, I turn to blocking as an attempt to win as well. And frankly, I love it."
-- Peter de Zeeuw, 2005

So after saying that is this post just an inside joke and he's a friend of yours?

Peter, it is absolutely disgraceful that you are making public jokes in this community forum - what do you think Ticket to Ride is, some kind of game?

LOL light up the newbie everyone! I thought I might actually learn something about the game on this community forum, now I see it's just a gathering place for the 'elite' TtR nerds to make attempts at being witty (and clearly spending too much time doing so) and giving each other slaps on the back to make themselves feel good while apparently forgetting the platform for this worthless activity is the communnity forum of the online version of a board game! Thank you for proving what I originally thought, that I don't belong in this 'cool' group (praise Allah)!

Dear TtR community,
... With my first move I immediately claimed Houston-New Orleans. Directly after that I told people not to touch the black cards since I needed them (it seemed to me it was pretty obvious I wanted Los Angeles-El Paso, duh). I even mentioned 'FAIR PLAY'. However, in the next few moves Aleopold deliberately started to collect black cards. Had I not mentioned to stay away from those? ....

Regards,
D.I.S.

Wow Peter & blubes, I have a similar story but with mine it is the 6 blue Aleo always takes. And it is obvious I have the Port-Phoe ticket, yet he takes the BLUE because he has the other Portland ticket or a Seattle ticket or Vancouver or Calgary or Chicago, or a combination of all of them, as it is Aleo who seems to always end with 5 or more tickets.
We will have to ask him what he thinks Fair Play means.

Good. Tell your stories. Voice your pain. The only way to root out this disgraceful behavior, is to publicly hang the cheaters. You are not the only victim. There are people out there just like you. Now let's all join hands and sing 'Kumbaya'.

Denito, could you please lie on the ground? Yes, go ahead... just lie down. Now close your eyes......

Hogan leg drop. BAM!

That's for being gullible and calling me a nerd.

Wait... Don't get up yet. Just keep lying there for a few more seconds. Yes, just like that...

BAM! (Hogan leg drop again.)

And that's for being Canadian. (I had some issues here with humorless Canadians in the past.)

I'm happy to announce I taught Denito a lesson. I know all my fellow tops were a bit concerned with this player invading our precious forum, but I took care of it (as always).

It's important to keep players like this away from our forum. We're trying to keep it civil and professional and these types just ruin it for all of us, questioning our integrity. Excuse me? WHO are you? It doesn't matter who you are! n00b!

I do have two questions however.

First, since my comeback I've been using the .exe link on my computer to play this game in full screen. But how do I make screen shots now? Probably a n00b question, but I need a little aid nevertheless...

And, second... take a look at this screen shot... I just noticed there is a comment section. But... what is it for? And how do we use it? I sure hope this wasn't another n00b question... I've only been playing this game since 2005!

If you play wdellis1 and a bot is coming, perhaps he just thought the game was lost for him, and jumped in another game...like this morning (playing with bry guy while I'm writing) !
So you can end and win the game.

I just entered a game against bry guy.
I had SSM-nash and den-pitt, he had 3 tixs and started with 6 black, 6 red and 2 in hou.
So I tried a block...and lost the game.
When I wanted a re, Bry Guy kicked me out and said : "I just want to play a regular game"

in the future i will finish my games vs bots if my opponent like to leave the game after a block,because i finish to fast or they leave at the begin when the see some bad tickets!!!
finish with be nice and leave the games also!!

"I'm happy to announce I taught Denito a lesson. I know all my fellow tops were a bit concerned with this player invading our precious forum, but I took care of it as always)."
-Peter De Zeeuw

Order restored - but chaos ensues.

Let it be known Peter the Great has been tamed. His feeble attempt at silencing me has only led me to beat him down on the board. As Weird Al once said, our friend here suffered from 'delusions of adequacy'. For someone thousands of places ahead of me in the rankings I thought he would have enjoyed 'teaching me another lesson', and though he did teach me a lesson, I'm sure it wasn't the one he intended.

Peter you are officially a hack! All the smack talk in the world will never restore your pride. Dude, you knew exactly what tickets I had and STILL could do nothing about it. Don't worry though, I'll allow you to rematch me anytime - I also know what it feels like to be Hogan leg-dropped.

Not only am I invading your precious forum, now I'm invading your space among the T2R elite.

Denito
p.s. I don't care if I don't have the screenshot to prove it we both know it happened

Dear Days of Wonder, I thought 'personal attacks' were not allowed on this forum? Could you please ban this player?

Thank you.

D.I.S.

Oh Peter why you will have banned Denito?!
he is quite nice
after i give him some tipp how he can play better i show him that also and he was so nice to call me bitch and something like that^^
but it seems he is to affraid to take a revanche

at last i try to write in english but man with the big mouth if you can write perfect in german or maybe italien lets speak about faults in a language that you never learned in school!!
its poor to laugh about faults

and i can read good and you poor liar use this great word
yes i know why you think its not fun to play against me;
its always annoying if the other end and you have still more then 12 tracks

I'm actually pretty new to this game. When I started playing I wasn't very good and I happened to have a very poor internet connection. There was a long period of time when I lost A LOT of games playing average players like myself because I lost my internet connection during the game and the other player finished against a bot. I was never mad at the other player, I just figured it was my fault for having a bad internet connection. Anyway, over the last few months I have learned from playing better players like yourselves and have gotten better at this game. However, I didn't realize that what was normal for below average players (playing against bots) was considered rude and unsportsmanlike by better players like yourselves.

Anyway, there were a few instances where I did that against better players. At the time I had no idea that there was a discussion board or private messaging available and I received the following message from TrueMiguel:

thanks for playing vs a bot!!!!!
A$$! another one to black list

I replied to him saying that I wasn't sure what he was talking about and then when I figured it out I sent him an apology with a similar explanation to what I wrote above. This was his reply:

sorry but i dont believe you. and yes i posted in the "warning" thread right after seeing another user saying u played vs a bot.
my language was not offensive. that behavior is A$$ behavior. simple fact.

I also took the time to write both M_U_D_D_A and Knockando emails to apologize for playing their bots after their computers kicked them and offering to give them a game to help their ranking. Knockando was very kind in his response and I sincerely believe that he understood my error. On the other hand, MUDDA wrote the following:

i was close to win, why should i?! and why do you change your name, once you appear on the blacklist? and how does it come, that other players make same experiences with you?

So to those of you who are reading this, especially you Hecki, Miguel, and MUDDA, I will let you decide what to think of this. I would appreciate you all allowing me to continue to play with you and you can know that I will not play a bot if you are kicked for some reason or other. Since becoming aware of this rule I have purposely abandoned games that I thought I would have won because the other player was kicked and I appreciate some of my recent opponents doing the same for me (most recently an-team and mef 23 both did this for me).

Waiting for the AAT Match Drake / Sysy ( I write during the boring Swiss .... I dont like this Map .... ), I watch a game between Foss and Ryanhig...

Foss is better score so I see his game... And last 4 turns, after Bot play for Foss, Ryanhig win the game... : 4 turns during Bot draw 2 times tickets ( Foss must win this game because he had all the cards to finish and take the road .... )

So, without explain from RYANHIG, I prefer not play with this TTR user...

Maskaride - Vouvray played against TrueBlue88. After 5 moves TrueBlue88 lost connection and Maskaride played till the end with the bot

It's one thing to warn in this thread when you suffer personally about rude behaviors, or worse, case of blatant cheating...

It's another thing to just come for denouncement and act as a "witch-hunter" ?! Especially for this sort of thing, where you maybe could not know everything about a casual night game, about players' circumstances...

Do you know that Maskaride plays NC like you ? Didn't you think that you could ask for more information about this game by PM first ? Are you sure that TrueBlue88 lost connection, and not just went away ? etc...

This thread is useful in most of the cases, specially for some guys (like Mr Bean) that play with everyone, but please, don't react too quickly without thinking a little more